CAPE TOWN, South Africa -- A great white shark estimated to be at least 18 feet long attacked and presumably killed an elderly South African woman
Monday off a beach near Cape Town, officials said.

Tyna Webb, 77, who lived in the area, was swimming Monday off Sunny Cove in Fish Hoek when the massive shark circled her and then attacked, witnesses
and officials said. About 15 people witnessed the attack.

The shark believed to have cut short the life of Durbanville medical student Henri Murray on Saturday, was spotted in False Bay on Sunday, dragging a
fishing buoy.

Murray, 22, had been spear-fishing 150 metres offshore of Miller's Point for about an hour with Van Niekerk, 23, when, at 3.45pm, a Great White shark
tried to get at him from below. He shouted to Van Niekerk, 10m away, to swim to shore, but his friend instead came to help him.

Murray managed to evade the Great White twice, but on its third attempt, the shark took him, breached and pulled him under. Van Niekerk, a few metres
away, fired his speargun at the shark in the hope it would leave Murray, but to no avail.

Grant Munro, who saw the incident from a bungalow in the caravan park, said: "The shark was a massive thing, probably five metres long. It
lifted him out of the water, and disappeared within seconds."

The attack on Murray was the second in the Western Cape in three months.

There have been more than 70 attacks, eight of them fatal, off the Western Cape since 1990.

A helicopter and speed boat scan the waters at Miller's Point, near Cape Town, where a student was killed by a great white shark on Saturday.
Photo: Cape Times

A 17-year-old surfer in New Jersey lost a chunk of leg flesh in what is likely the state's first attack by a Great White shark in 30 years, officials
said on Wednesday.

New Jersey resident Ryan Horton was about 25 feet (7.5 metres) off the beach at Surf City, Long Beach Island early on Sunday afternoon when he felt a
sharp pain in his ankle but didn't see what caused it. After paddling back to shore, he was taken to a hospital

Bob Schoelkopf, director of the Marine Mammal Stranding Center in Brigantine, New Jersey said photos of the wound confirmed it could only have been
made by a Great White.

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